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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
the town and great destitution and dis

the town and great destitution and dis
tress prevails.
Later advices indicate that the fire
was not so disastrous as was at first sup
posed. Fifteen business houses
were destroyed, and large num-
ber of residences consumed. A
fair share of the stocks in the
stores was saved by moving, and,
while the loss will be heavy, it will not
be so great as anticipated. No statement
of loss or insurance has yet been made.
The homeless families were taken in by
and are being provided for. One old
man in feeble health died from over eX-
citement.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
A Murderous Mill Man.

CHICAGO, Nov. 20.-William Myers,
foreman cf the blast furnace of the
North Chicago Rolling Mill company at
South Chicago, returned to his home
this evening after having been away
all day, and without uttering word,
shot his wife three times,
intiicting fatal injuries. He
then fired the remaining shots in his re-
volver at his daughter Laura, aged
eighteen, and son, Allie, aged fourteen.
Neither of these shots took effect.
Myers started to reload his revolver
when the girl ran screaming from the
house. He then fled and has not yet
been captured. The cause of the shoot
ing cannot be ascertained further than
that Myers had not been on good terms
with his wife for some time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
WIPED OUT.
The Town of CRANKY, Mo-, Sue
cumbs to the Flames.

NEOsHo, Mo-, Nov. 20.-The town of
CRANKY, four miles from here, was
wiped out by fire yesterday. About 100
families are homeless. The temperature
is near zero and great suffering prevails.
The loss is estimated at 100000. The
town has no fire apparatus and the fight
with buckets was soon abandoned as
useless. The volunteers from Neosho
left for the scene in wagons and car
riages. taking with them one hand en-
gine. The fire originated in Murray's
restaurant, adjoining the CRANKY house,
large three-story hotel. The latter
soon caught and the flames were driven
by the wind through the business
center, wiping out everything. The
majority of the buildings were frame
and as dry as tinder from the long
drouth. The residences fell prey
next and many were burned before the
people could get their personal effects
out of the houses. Very little is left of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
With O'Brien's Blood.

DUBLIN, NOQ. 20.-At league meet
ing held at Step Aside, near Dublin. to-
day, Commissioner Clancy in the course
of a speech told his hearers that he had
seen letter smuggled from Tullamore
Jail written with the blood of Mr..
O'Brlen. Michael Davitt also addressed
the meeting and severely condemned
the hide-and-seek tactics of Mr.. Pyne
in shutting himself in his castle instead
of coming out and facing the music like
a man.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Moody in Pittsburg.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Nov. 20.-Dwight L..
Moody inaugurated revival meeting
to-day at the Grand Central rink in this:
city. The meetings are under the.
auspices of the Evangelical Ministerial
association, and will be continued daily
for several weeks. The services to-day
were attended by over $4,000 persons.
There were fifty conversions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
How SalOni Suffered.

DEs MONIES, To-, Nov. 2O.-The village
of Saloni, in Warren county, was almost
totally destroyed by fire yesterday. Be-
fore the flames could be placed under
control fourteen buildings with their
contents had been burned. The losses
will aggregate nearly $4,000, with only
a small insurance.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Losses on Land and Water
Reported From Every
L Direction.
A Sabbath Which Will Live in
History as a Day Of Ae-
cidentS.
Bv Cable to the Globe.

By Cable to the Globe.
LONDON, Nov. 2O.-The Netherland
steamer W. a. Scholten, which sailed
from Rotterdam for New York yester-
day, came into collision ten miles off
Dover at II o'clock last night with the
steamer Rosa Mary and sank almost
Immediately. The SchOlten had on
board passengers and crew to the num-
ber of 230, and of these only ninety are
known to have been saved. Of the re-
manning 40 twenty-Seven have been
landed at Dover dead, and fears ale en-
tertained that the others are also lost,
though a few of them may have been
picked up by passing vessels. AS soon
as the
NEWS OF THE DISASTER
reached Dover vessels were sent to the
rescue, but it does not as yet appear
that. with the exception of the ninety
persons rescued and brought here by
the steamer Ebro, any lives have been
off Ramsgate with her bows badly stove
and her timbers strained. The heads of
the Scholten's masts are visible above
the water from the Dover pier. A dense
fog prevailed when the collision oc
Cured and the SchOlten was moving at
half speed. warning of the collision
was given,
THE SUDDEN SHOCK
of the contact on the port bow having
been the first intimation to the officers
of the Dutch steamer of the proximity
of another vessel. The officers of the
Scholten deny that the passengers on
board the steamer were in bed, but it is
a fact, nevertheless, that most of them
rushed upon the deck in their night
clothes. Immediately after the collision,
as soon as the extent of the damage to
the vessel was ascertained, the order
was given to
LOWER THE BOATS.
The ship carried five boats, but only
two of them were available, the other
three being unSeaworthy. The two
sound boats were lowered, and at the
same time it was reported on deck that
the ship was making water rapidly and
must soon go down. The scenes which fol-
lowed this announcement were terrible
beyond description. Shrieks. prayers,
grOans an curses mingled with the hoarse
voices of the officers giving orders: and
the cries of children, clinging to their
mothers skirts, rendered still more
heartrending the
TERRoR-LADEN SHRIEKS
of the latter. The officers displayed adj
mirable GOODNESS, and remained on the
bridge and at other points of duty until
the last: several Of them, being provided
with life belts, remaining until the yes
sci settled and leaping into the sea as
she went down. Within twenty minutes
after the two ships came together the
Scholten was at the bottom of the chan
mel. All of the passengers and crew
who had been fortunate enough to pro-
cure
LIFE BELTS
fioated and were picked up by the Ebro's
boats, which cruised around till 4o'clock
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Kentucky Forest Fires.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 20.-Reports
from towns in the southern and western
portions of Kentucky state that, owing
to the protracted drouth, forest fires are
causing great destruction in that region.
Barns and other farm buildings near
Owensboro, Glasgow, Bowling Green,
Paducah and Hopkinsville are reported
burned, and the total loss will be great
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
An Ill-Fated Craft.

Boston, Nov. 2O.-The bark Joseph
A. Ropes, which arrived to-day from
Majumba, lost two seamen, Theodore
Jackson, of Boston, and Fred Krowse,
a German, who died of coast fever. The
chief officer, Stillman G. James, of
Salem, was killed by the bite of a scor-
pion while in port at Nossi-Be. The
captain and crew were suffering from
coast fever on arrival here.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
At a Church Door.

FREEPoRT, ILL.,, Nov. 2O.-A piece Of
gas pipe, plugged at both ends, and
thought to be a dynamite bomb, was
found at the entrance of the Embury
NJ E. church this morning by the sex
ton. 1t is now at police Headquarters,
and an effort is being made to ascertain
the perpetrators of the evil design.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Indian Counterfeiters.

LONDON, Ont, Nov. 2O.-Hiram Pow
els, David Schuyley Wilson, Daxtater,
Simon. Elijah and Amos Jones, all In
dians of Oneida, are on trial here for
cOunterfeiting silver half dollars. Four
81 900 bonds, while Schuyler was bailed
for $500. The plan pursued by the In
dians is said to be superior to the old
system of casting altogether from dies.
They simply made impressions of half
dollars in plaster of paris, and cast the
money therein. Some of the specimens
were excellent in imitation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Mysterious Diamond Robbery.

New YORK, Nov. 2O.-The police have
been notified of mysterious robbery of
diamonds and jewelry valued at 1,O0O,.
from the residence of Matthew Morgan,
$40 Lexington avenue. The robbery
is supposed to have been
committed last night, and
was probably the work of
second story thieves" who climbed to.
Mrs. Morgan's apartments while the
family were at dinner. Mr.. Morgan is.
a wealthy retired merchant. The stolen
gems include a magnificent necklace.
bracelet, rings, etc, mostly diamonds.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Russia Massing Troops.

LONDON, Nov. 20.-It is reported from
st. Petersburg that Russia is massing
100000 troops on the German and
Austrian frontiers. The Austrian and
German governments are kept fully ad-
yiSed of Russian movements on their
respective borders by Polish Jews. 1t
is expected that Bismarck will enter
complaint against the action of Russia
i'm the reichStag,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Starving Miners.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2O.-Mr. Pow
derly has issued personal appeal to the
knights and the general public for aid
for the starving coal miners. This is
additional to his official appeal to the
knights. He says the condition of the
men is frightful.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
A Mine on Fire.

CALUMET, Mich, Nov. 20.-About
$50 o'clock this morning fire broke out
in No. l Hecla shaft at the seventeenth
level of the Calumet and Hecla mine.
The fire was discovered by the boy at
tending the pumps. The burning shaft
is 100 feet north of the main engine
shaft and is a solid mass of timber. The
prospects are worse than at the last fire.
All the shafts except those at the South
Hecla are closed, and carbonic gas will
be sent down tonight to extinguish the
flames
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Big Tug Bnrned.

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 2O.-Fire was
discovered in the big tug Winslow of
the Grummonds line, and before the
department had the flames subdued the
cabin and upper works were destroyed.
Capt. Grummond estimates the loss at
$4,000. Several steamers were scorched
but none seriously. She is fully in
Sured.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
The Count an Elk.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Nov. 90
Count Magri was made an Elk by the
Grand Rapids lodge of Elks tonight.
He is the smallest Elk in the world.
His wife, Mrs. Thomas Thumb, was
made an honorary member of the lodge.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
MARINE.
Special to the Globe.

Special 70 the GIObe.
DULUTH, Mimi, Nov. 2O.-Arrived: Pro.
peller T. H. Camp, from Port Arthur and
North shore points, with passengers. fish
and sundries; iron tug Record, from Two
Harbors, light. Departed: Propeller Japan,
to Buffalo, with passengers and sundries.
To depart early in the morning: Propellers
C. Tower, Jr., Sitka, Wallula, City of Cleve-
land, all with wheat, for Buffalo. Incoming
vessels are sheathed in ice and report rough
trip, with binding snow and extereme cold.
Eighteen vessels are to arrive here yet.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Iron Works Burned.

BOSTON, Nov. 20.-The Charles Rivers
iron works, in West Boston, were par.
TALLY burned tonight. Loss, 100000.
Partially incurad
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
York Catches 1t, Too.

Special to the GLOBE.
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 20.-York, Neb.,
suffered destructive fire this morning.
Seven stores, including the Union and
Masonic blocks, were burned. Loss,
100000.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Gladstone Has a Cold.
Home Again.

LONDON, Nov. 2O.-Mr. Gladstone is
confined in doors with slight cold.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Looking to Prince William.

BERLIN, Nov. 20.-Arrangements are
making here with view to the posi-
bility of Prince William assuming the
regency of the empire.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Down OFF DOVER

UUWN UFf UUVEk
The Netherland Steamer w.
A. Seholten Collides With
the Rosa Mary.
The Former Rapidly Fills and
Is Beneath the Waves in
Twenty Minutes.
Over Hundred of the Passen-
gers and Crew Believed
to Have PePished.
The Condition of the Bodies
Leads to the Belief That
Many We're Frozen.
Only Two Of the Seholten'S
Life Boats Proved to Be
Fit for Use.
Life Belts Very ScaPce--Many
Jump Overheard in Night
Clothes.
The Captain of the Rosa Mary
Denies Colliding With the
w. A. Seholten.
Great Anxiety Manifested at
Ashland Over the Steamer
City Of Duluth.
Vessels on the Lakes Expert
ence Great Difficulty in
Making ROFI.
Winona Visited by a Disas-
trous Fire and LarimOPe
by Another.
The Main Building Of Barnum
& Bailey's Show Goes
Up in Smoke.
Losses on Land and Water
Reported From Every
Direction.
A Sabbath Which Will Live in
History as a Day Of Ac-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. N.-The car
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-20
The Park Concerts.
, the Editor of the Dispatch:


Although the tri-weekly concerts are
a great boon TO those of our people
into whose daily lives little music
creeps, and who ought, and possibly
do, feel that they owe debt OF graft
tude to the generous and public-spirited
citizens who contributed to procure
this pleasure for them, yet there IS
quite q general impression that these
same concerts might still be more pro-
ductiye of gratitude and pleasure on
the part of the people generally ii the
time of beginning was something like
an hour later. Music hath charms to
soothe the savage, "butifit has ever been
able to .oothe the pangs of hunger l
have failed to see it recorded. Those
people in the city who have few chances
Of heaiing music outside of the con-
certs are the laboring classes princi-
pally. who leave their respective places
of work at 6 o'clock. The perform
ances begin at 6:l5, and by the time
the tired, hungry man eats his much
needed meal and snatches a few mo-
ments' rest the music has ceased, and
neither he nor the good housewife can
share in the general enjoyment. No
ones soul is void of music, not even
the man who bends over the bench
and furnace, and it seems a matter OF
regret that the chance is denied them.
The audiences who collect at the parks
on concert evenings have very small
percentage OF the class i refer to. |
do not intend to offer any suggestion,
knowing that older and wiser heads
effected the arrangements, but merely
submit to the columns OF the Dispatch
the ideas OF many more than myself.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-20
BIG JEwELRY ROBBERY.
BursIars Secure $4,000 Booty i'm
bridgeport, Conn.

A Bridgeport Conn telegram says:
Shortly after o'clock this morning 1t
was discovered that the jewelry store OF
G.. W. Fairchild, on Main street, had
been entered by burglars and that the
safe in which most of She yaluables
were contained had been despoiled.
The value of the booty, consisting OF
diamonds, watches, and other valua-
bles, secured by the thieves Is about
$4,000, not including number of
gold watches left in the place for re-
pair. The thieves took only the most
valuable articles, leaving behind, as If III
contempt, q ten-dollar Confederate bill
and an old sledge-hammer with a
broken handle. Imitation pieces OF
iewelry were found on the floor this
morning, having been tested and then
stepped upon.
The thieves obtained entrance through
o back yard to which they had obtained
access by climbing through the fan
light OF an adjoining saloon. 1t is a
curious part of the proceeding that, al
ter getting inside the saloon, they put
in the doors large screw as an addi-
tional fastening. A decayed sash at
the rear of the jewelry store was forced
in and entrance to the cellar thereby
gained. Access to the door above was
obtained by boring out the hinges in
the trap-door A number of gas-lights
are left burning in the store all night,
but. to secure themselves from obserya-
ton. the thieves hung in front screen
made up Of white cloth taken from the
showcases and folds of black cambric
which they had brought themselves and
left behind
The safe was forced open by the use
of wedges, sledge-hammer, and jim
mics. The sledge-hammer was also
left behind. 1t has broken handle,
and looks as if it might have been
taken from a junk shop. The police
have no clue to the thieves, although
| the scene of the robbery is patroled by
a re gular officer and two private watch
men. How the crackSmen could have
| operated on the main thoroughfare OF
| the city without detection by some OF
these officials is the present conundrum.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-20
VIRGINIA CoNsTRUCTION GO.
Annual Meeting of tbe Stockhoid'
ers Held Here Yesterday.

The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Virginia Construction
Company was held yesterday afternoon
at the banking house Of Warren Il
Quarles. Colonel A. S. BufOrd was
made chairman and Il. l.. Traylor
secretary of the meeting.
The following named gentlemen were
elected directors j. B. Pace, 7. &.
Leake, Jr, A. S. Buford, T.. d. Chris
tian, r. c. Williams, and Joseph Bry-
an, Of Richmond; ID. T. Porter, John
Overton, Jr., and T. j. Latham, of
Memphis.
The following officers were elected {:
J. b. Pace. president; I. G. Leake,
Jr, vice president and general mana
ger; T.. ID. Christian, second vice-pre-
sident Il. II. Temple, chief engineer ;
T.. j. Snead, secretary and Paul l..
Jones, treasurer.
A contract was directed to be made
with the Tennessee Midland Railway
Company for the construction of Its
railroad. One hundred and thirty-five
miles Of this railroad is advertised for
letting at Memphis on Monday next.
1t il to be completed from Memphis to
Jackson by January lst, and to the
Tennessee river by next spring.
The Virginia Construction Company
has recently increased its capital stock
to g., Geo. 600, most Of which was readi-
ly taken by Richmond and Memphis
capitalists.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-20
virginia Division OF tho Travellers
protective Association.

Colonel ". 4. James, a member OF
TIE Board of Directors of the Virginia
Division Of the Travellers Protective
Association. has been appointed by
President l'iudcll a member of the Ma
t.onal Railroad Committee. Colonel
James was the chairman Of the State
Comuittce from the organization oi
thi, division until the LIST day of the
present month. having then retired be-
cauee Lie office was abolished at the
last convention. Colonel james has
done much good work for the Travel
lcrs Protective Association as chair
man Of the Railroad Committee III this
STATE and his selection as member OF
the National Committee Is regarded as
a wise one, and reflects much credit
upon the president and Colonel James.
linus again has old Virginia been
bouored. this division now having two
representatives in the directory of ma
tional officers. President Harwood and
Secretary Hirshberg are by virtue OF
tbeir Offices members OF all standing
committees Of this division, the former
being chairman Of the same. ,
At the next meeting of the board Oh
directors a third vice-prcsident will be
elected. and the chairmansmp OF the
railroad and all other standing commit
tees will be abolished in conformity
with the new constitution of the order.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-20
Intere.ting story Of Q Ring.

Giles Busby, Toledo fshmonger,
was cleaning q whitefish last week, and
in the larger intestines Of the fish be
found diamond ring. The ring bad
engraved upon its inner surface 81.
A. b., Chicago. 49," Busby forward
ed the ring to the chief OF police in
that city. Last Wednesday Mrs. Julia
A. Lennox, Of IL Lennox-Place, Chi
cago, identified and recovered the ring.
She tells an interesting story OF its
loss. In 1869 she, as Miss Bennett,
became engaged to Mr.. Lennox,
and he gave her this diamond
ring, for which he paid 3i5O.
Upon their bridal trip in 1871 Mrs.
Lsnnox lost this ring; while she wa.
washing her hands in the toilet-room o'
the Pullman car the ring slipped from
her finger and dropped through the
waste pipe. Al the train happened e
be crossing the bridge over the St
! Lawrence river, near Montreal, just O
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-20
RICHMOND VA, WEDNESDAY JULY 20 1887

electric-light pole, when he was IN
stantly hurled to the middle ot the
street, owing to the wire having come
in contact with the electric circuit
His agonizing screams brought a num-
Der Of men to his aid, and as he was
unable to let go OF the wire several men
at once laid hold of him but they
were hurled away from him by the
force Of the electricity. Various ex'
pedients were tried to free him,
but every one who touched the
lad received shock thas sent
him reeling several yards away. AT
las. . bystander grabbed the wire by
means of cloth, and although he also
was shocked, he succeeded in jerking
the wire loose from the boy, who at
once sprang to his feet. His injuries
we're found to consist OF terrible
burn on the inside OF the left arm, the
flesh being literally roasted, besides
small bruise or burn on the left ankle.
He had a miraculous escape from
death, and several parties who tried to
aid him came near being seriously in
jured also, notably man who went
near him with cbisel to cut the wire,
and another who fetched cup OF
water to extinguish the boys burning
coat-sleevt, both being terribly stunned
and the aiticles hurled from their
hands.